Medicine, Botanic - Biodiversity Heritage Library

Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh : accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed : in three volumes

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By: Woodville, William, - Sowerby, James,

Publication info: London, Printed and sold for the author, by James Phillips, 1790-93

Holding Institution: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library

Subjects: Botany Botany, Medical Early works to 1800 Materia medica Medicine, Botanic Phytotherapy Plant extracts Plants, Medicinal

New guide to health, or, Botanic family physician containing a complete system of practice on a plan entirely new, with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and administering them to cure disease : to which is added a description of several cases of disease attended by the author, with the mode of treatment and cure

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By: Thomson, Samuel,

Publication info: [Hamilton Ont.?, s.n.], 1832

Holding Institution: Canadiana.org

Subjects: Herbs Medicine, Botanic Therapeutic use

New guide to health, or, Botanic family physician containing a complete system of practice on a plan entirely new, with description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and administering them to cure disease : to which is added a description of several cases of disease attended by the author, with the mode of treatment and cure

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By: Thomson, Samuel,

Publication info: Boston, S. Thomson, 1835

Holding Institution: Canadiana.org

Subjects: Herbs Medicine, Botanic Therapeutic use

New guide to health, or, Botanic family physician containing a complete system of practice upon a plan entirely new, with description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and administering them to cure disease : to which is prefixed a narrative of the life and medical discoveries of the author

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By: Thomson, Samuel,

Publication info: Boston, S. Thomson, 1835

Holding Institution: Canadiana.org

Subjects: 1769-1843 Herbs Medicine, Botanic Therapeutic use Thomson, Samuel,

'Every man his own physician.' The vegetable family physician: containing a description of the roots and herbs common to this country, with their medicinal properties and uses: also directions for the treatment of the diseases incident to human nature, by vegetables alone; embracing many valuable Indian recipes

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By: Emmons, Samuel Bulfinch.

Publication info: Boston, G.P. Oakes, 1836

Holding Institution: Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H. Raven Library

Subjects: Medicine, Botanic

BHL Collections: Missouri Botanical Garden's Materia Medica

The sick man's friend : Being a plain, practical medical work; designed for the use of families and individuals on vegetable, or botanical principles. In four parts

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By: Sanborn, P. E. (Peter Elkins), - Johnson, A

Publication info: Taunton [Mass.], Published by the Author, 1836

Holding Institution: Wellcome Library

Subjects: Electronic books Herbs Manuals (Handbooks) Materia medica Medicine, Botanic Medicine, Popular Plants, Medicinal

The experienced botanist or Indian physician : being a new system of practice, founded on botany; containing: 1. A description of medicinal plants ... 2. A treatise on the causes, symptoms and cure of disease incident to the human frame; with a safe and sovereign mode of treatment. For the use of families and practitioners

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By: Cooper, J. W

Publication info: Lancaster, Printed for the author and publishers, 1840

Holding Institution: Wellcome Library

Subjects: Botany, Medical Electronic books Indians of North America Materia medica, Vegetable Medicinal plants Medicine Medicine, Botanic Medicine, Popular Mercury Therapeutic use Therapeutics Traditional medicine

A plea for the botanic practice of medicine

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By: Skelton, John, - King's College London.

Publication info: London published by J. Watson,... and at our Botanic Establishment,...Leeds MDCCCLIII [1853]

Holding Institution: King's College London, Foyle Special Collections Library

Subjects: Alternative medicine Electronic books Herbs History Homeopathy Materia medica, Vegetable Medicinal plants Medicine Medicine, Botanic Mesmerism Therapeutic use Therapeutics

The complete herbalist or, the people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies showing the great curative properties of all herbs, gums, balsams, barks, flowers and roots ; how they should be prepared, when and under what influences selected, at what times gathered, and for what diseases administered. Also, separate treatises on fod and drinks ; clothing ; exercise ; the regulation of the passions, life, health, and disease; longevity; medication; air and sunshine ; bathing ; sleep, etc. Also, symptoms of prevalent diseases ; special treatment in special cases; and a new and plain system of hygienic principles

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By: Brown, O. Phelps (Oliver Phelps)

Publication info: London Published by the author 1871

Holding Institution: King's College London, Foyle Special Collections Library

Subjects: Botany, Medical Dietetics Diseases Electronic books Materia medica, Vegetable Medicine, Botanic Nutrition Therapeutics

The New Zealand family herb doctor : a book on the botanic eclectic system of medicine, containing the latest discoveries in medicine and surgery, for the cure of disease : also, a description of the herbs, roots, barks, seeds, extracts, essential oils, & c : with 100 (six-coloured) plates of the most important medicinal plants growing in New Zealand, Australia, and elsewhere, together with numerous carefully selected valuable remedies, recipes, &c., with a successful treatment for horses and cattle, dogs, & c

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By: Neil, James F., M.D., U.S.A.

Edition: 3rd ed., rev. and enl. (fifth thousand).

Publication info: Dunedin [N.Z.], Mills, Dick, 1891

Holding Institution: Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

Subjects: Herbs Materia medica, Vegetable Medicinal plants Medicine, Botanic New Zealand Therapeutic use

New guide to health, or, Botanic family physician containing a complete system of practice on a plan entirely new, with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and administering them to cure disease : to which is added a description of several cases of disease attended by the author, with the mode of treatment and cure

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By: Thomson, Samuel,

Edition: 3rd ed.

Publication info: Indianapolis, A.I. Berninger, 1894

Holding Institution: Canadiana.org

Subjects: Herbs Medicine, Botanic Therapeutic use